Cigarette-making device



July 15' 1924.

' J. E. CROTTY CIGARETTE MAKING DEVICE Filed D66. 19. I921 Patented July 15, 1924.

UNETED STATES JERE ELLWOOD CROTTY, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

' CIGARETTE-MAKING DEVICE. 2

Application filed December 19,1921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Joan E. Cno'r'ri, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Cigarette-Making Devices, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in cigarette making devices, and it consists in the combinations, constructions, and arrangements herein described and claimed.

An object of my invention is to provide a cigarette making device which is adapted to make a cigarette in the minimum amount of time and with the minimum amount of labor.

A further object of my invention is to provide a device of the type described which is adapted to make cigarettes of uniform thickness throughout their length.

A further object of my invention is to provide a device of the type described in which the means that feeds the cigarette papers to the tobacco also automatically applies the required amount of mucilage to i the papers.

r A further ob ect of my invention is to provide a device of the type described which is simple in construction, eflicient for the purpose intended, and which is not likely to easily get out of order.

Other objects and advantages will appear in the following specification, and the novel features of the invention will be particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming part of this ap plication, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device,

Figure 2 is a plan view of the device, and

Figure 3-is a section along the line 3 3 of Figure 2.

In carrying out my invention, I provide a frame 1 which comprises a platform 2 and legs 3. The platform 2 is cut away as at 4 for a purpose hereafter described. The platform 2 has a plurality of lugs .5 integral therewith which are bent upwardly therefrom. As clearly shown in Figure 2, the lugs 5 are adapted to engage the sides of cigarette papers 6.

A means for supplying one edge of the cigarette papers with a strip of mucilage is 5 provided and comprises a dauber 7 which is adapted to be saturated with the desired Serial No. 523,423.

mucilage in the same manner as a sponge. The dauber 7 is securely held between a U- shaped frame 8 and a strip 9. The strip 9 is held to the frame 8 by means of screws 10 (see Figure 2). The frame 8 is pivotally secured to the platform 2 by means of pins 11 which are carried by upstanding lugs 12. It is to be noted that the lugs 12 are integral with the platform 2. The frame 8 is so disposed on the platform 2 that it can be,

swung from the full line position shown in Figures 1 and 2 of the drawing to the dot-ted line position, so as to bring the dauber 7 into contact with the cigarette paper at a slight distance from the edge 13 thereof. The mucilage carried by the dauber 7 causes the paper to adhere to the dauber while the dauber and frame 8 are swung into the full line position shown in Figure 1. The tobacco rolling means now to be described is adapted to pull the paper from the dauber. The paper tends to cling to the dauber as it is being pulled therefrom. In this manner, the dauber continues to apply mucilage to the paper until the edge of the paper is pulled free of the dauber.

The tobacco rolling means comprises a plurality of corrugated rollers 14 which are disposed parallel to the dauber 7 and are carried by the frame 1. It will be apparent from Figures 1 and 2 that there are eight of these rollers concentrically disposed about a central axis and that the three uppermost rollers are carried by a frame 15 which is pivotally secured to the frame 1 by means of a pin 16. Disposed adjacent to each side of the frame 1 is a spacing roller which is carried by the rollers .14. The spacing rollers 17 and 18 are identical with respect to each other except that the roller 18 is provided with a longitudinally extending pin 19 which is adapted to project through an opening 20 in the frame 1 and is provided with a handle 21 at the outer end thereof. The rollers 14 are so disposed as to he practically tangent to each other and are adapted to be rotated in the same direction by a means hereafter described. Tobacco (not shown) may be disposed between the rollers 17 and 18 and between the rollers 14. This isaCcomplished by first swinging the frame 15 to the full line position shown in Figure 1, then placing the tobacco between the rollers 17 and 18 and the rollers 14 which are carried by the frame 1, and then swinging the frame 15 to the dotted line position r on the platform 2 and placed between the shown in Figure 1. The rollers 14 are provided with trunnions 22 at one of their ends and with threaded shafts 23 at their other ends. The shafts 23 have a left-handed thread and are also provided with pinions 24 which are rigidly secured thereto. As clearly shown in Figures 2 and 3, the pinions which are disposed adjacent to each other do not lie in the same plane. A stub shaft 25 is carried by the frame 1 and by an auxiliary frame 26, the latter being secured to the frame 1 by means of screws 27. The shaft 25 has a pinion 28' rigidly secured thereto and disposed between the frames 1 and 26. The outer end of the shaft 25 also carries a crank handle 29 by means of which the pinion 28 is adapted to be rotated. When the crank 29 is operated in the direction of the arrow shown in Figure 1, the pinion 28 is rotated so as to rotate the pinions 24 and the rollers 14.

From the foregoing description of the various parts of the device, the operation thereof may be readily understood. When a cigarette is desired to be made, a plurality of cigarette papers 6 are first disposed lugs 5 (see Figure 2). The dauber 7 which carries the mucilage is then brought into engagement with the upper cigarette paper by means of swinging the frame 8 from the full line position to the dotted line position shown in Figure 1. The frame 15 may then be swung to the full line position shown in Figure 1 so as to permit tobacco to be placed between the rollers 17 and 18 and the rollers 14. The frame 15 is then swung back to normal position and the crank 99 is rotated a few times in the direction of the arrow, whereby the tobacco disposed between the rollers 17 and 18 and the rollers 14 is formed into the desired roll. The

frame 15 is then swung to the full line position shown in Figure 1 and the frame 8 is swung to the full line position shown in Figure 1. The frame 8 carries with it the cigarette paper 6 and places the free end thereof on the roller 14 which is disposed the nearest to the frame 8. The frame 15 is now swung to the dotted line position shown in Figure 1 and the crank 29 is again actuated in the direction of the arrow. This operation causes the rollers 14 to be rotated in the reverse direction to that shown by the arrow and causes the rollers 14, which are disposed on opposite sides of the paper 6, to grip the same and to draw it between the rollers. As the paper is drawn between the rollers, the end 13 thereof is supplied with the desired amount of mucilage, since the paper tends to cling to the dauber as it is pulled thereover before it is freed from the dauber 7. The end of the paper 6 which is disposed between the rollers 14 is then guided between the rollers 14 and the tobacco (not shown) which is carried by the rollers 14. Further operation of the crank 29 will cause the paper 6 to be rolled around the tobacco and to cause the edge 13 thereof to be secured in place.

To remove the now completed cigarette from the device, the frame 15 is first swung into the full line position shown in Figure 1 and the pin 19 is grasped by means of the handle 21 and is swung into the dotted line position shown in Figure 3 of the drawing. The free end of the pin 19 which is inserted in the cigarette 30 will lift the cigarette so the latter may be easily removed from the pin. As many cigarettes as desired can be made in the same manner as heretofore described.

Since all of the pinions 24 rotate in the same direction and are disposed so close to each other that contact therebetween might likely result, the adjacent pinions are disposed in different parallel planes. The pinions 24 are so rotated by the crank 29 as to cause the shafts 23 which are provided with a left-handed thread to constantly tighten on the rollers 14. This construction prevents the shafts 23 from becoming loose with respect to the rollers 14. The opening 20 is preferably elongated so as to permit the pin 19 to be swung upwardly when the cigarette 30 is desired to be withdrawn from the pin.

As is apparent from the foregoing, the device is adapted to be used by single individuals and will make a cigarette which conforms very closely to the manufactured cigarettes now on the market. The end 13 of the over the dauber 7 before it is released from the dauber. As heretofore stated, the device is simple in construction and is efiicient for the purpose intended.

I claim:

A device of the type described comprising a frame, a plurality of papers carried by said. frame, a plurality of rollers for forming tobacco into a roll, means for feeding one paper at a time from the pile of papers into the rollers, a spacing roller disposed at one end of said rollers, and being enclosed thereby, a second roller disposed at the other end of said rollers, said frame having a slot, and a pin axially aligned with said second named roller and being carried thereby, said pin projecting beyond each end of said second named roller and being disposed in said slot, whereby said pin will be embedded in a cigarette being formed, and is adapt-ed to lift the cigarette free from the rollers when said pin is swung about the side of the slot as a pivot. 

